{"id":39170,"date":"2018-08-14T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=39170"},"modified":"2018-08-14T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:18:49","slug":"shreyas-iyer-ankit-bawne-hit-fifties-as-india-a-win-series-1-0-against-south-africa-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/shreyas-iyer-ankit-bawne-hit-fifties-as-india-a-win-series-1-0-against-south-africa-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Shreyas Iyer, Ankit Bawne hit fifties as India A win series 1-0 against South Africa A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper Shreyas Iyer and semior batsman Ankit Bawne hit patient half centuries after early stutter as India A won the two-match series against South Africa A by 1-0 margin after the second \u2018Test\u2019 ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<p>India A won the first four day \u2018Test\u2019 by an innings and 30 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Starting the final day on 294 for 7, the Proteas added 25 runs losing the remaining three wickets to get all out for 319 in 98.2 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Siraj (4\/72) and Ankit Rajpoot (3\/52) shared bulk of the spoils while limited overs specialist Yuzvendra Chahal grabbed two for 84 in 22 overs.<\/p>\n<p>With a slender 26-run lead, India A finished their second essay at 181 for 4 with Iyer (65) and Bawne (64 no) steadying the ship with a 86-run stand for the fourth wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Iyer hit four boundaries and four sixes in 103 balls while Bawne hit nine boundaries in 100 deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy that I got some runs under my belt. For sure, there was nothing wrong in my batting in the last two innings, just that I needed to convert 30s into big scores, which I tried focussing on,\u201d Iyer told reporters at post-match press conference.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper Shreyas Iyer and semior batsman Ankit Bawne hit patient half centuries after early stutter as India A won the two-match series against South Africa A by 1-0 margin after the second \u2018Test\u2019 ended in a draw. India A won the first four day \u2018Test\u2019 by an innings and 30 runs. Starting the final day [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39172,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39170\/revisions\/39172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}